Electing a president cannot happen while Lebanon remains under an Israeli offensive, the country’s parliament speaker said on Wednesday as religious leaders called for an end to the presidential deadlock. Lebanon’s rival political parties have tried to revive talks to reach a settlement that could finally see parliament elect a president after a nearly two-year vacuum. A five-member committee made up of the US, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt has tried to reach a breakthrough in the presidential crisis but stark differences remain between Lebanon’s sectarian rulers – some of them warlord…